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Amadeus August is a Actor Allemand born on 6 may 1942

Amadeus August

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Birth name Amadeus August
Nationality German
Birth 6 may 1942
Death 6 july 1992 (at 50 years) at Munich (German)

Amadeus August, né le 6 mai 1942 à Breslau et mort le 6 juillet 1992 à Munich, est un acteur allemand.

Biography

Il est surtout connu pour avoir incarné Quentin Durward dans la série éponyme en 1971 et a participé à bon nombre de séries telles que Tatort, Inspecteur Derrick ou encore Le Renard. Au cinéma, il est notamment apparu dans La Course à l'échalote (1975) avec Pierre Richard et Jane Birkin. Il meurt du SIDA à l'âge de 50 ans.

Best films

The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
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Filmography of Amadeus August (9 films)

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L'impure
L'impure (1991)
, 3h20
Directed by Paul Vecchiali
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Marianne Basler, Françoise Lebrun, Amadeus August, Isabelle Cyr, Dora Doll, Louise Marleau
Roles Robert
Rating70% 3.537093.537093.537093.537093.53709
D'après le roman de Guy Des Cars. En 1931, à Paris, Chantal, mannequin, rencontre lord Arthur Witney, un Anglais très riche. Il tombe fou amoureux d'elle. Désormais, elle mène une existence de luxe. Bientôt, la naissance d'un petit garçon comble le couple. Un jour, Chantal découvre des tâches suspectes sur sa peau. Le médecin lui annonce qu'elle est atteinte de la lèpre...
Night of the Fox, 3h20
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin, John Mills, Juliet Mills, David Birney
Roles Muller
Rating60% 3.048573.048573.048573.048573.04857
Professor Alan Stacy visits Jersey to complete his biography of his friend and pre-World War II fellow academic Harry Martineau, but arrives on the day of Harry’s funeral. Only one mourner is present, Dr Sarah Drayton. Invited back to her house, he is told by Sarah that the two of them worked for Special Operations Executive during the war. She shows Stacy a photo of them posing with Field-Marshal Rommel, and then tells the story behind the photo.
Lenin: The Train, 3h18
Directed by Damiano Damiani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Dominique Sanda, Leslie Caron, Jason Connery, Timothy West, Günther Maria Halmer
Rating68% 3.4302053.4302053.4302053.4302053.430205
En 1917, Lénine, réfugié en Suisse près de Genève avec sa femme Nadedja Kroupskaïa, est approché par des intermédiaires de l'Allemagne pour rentrer en Russie, alors gouvernée par Kerenski.
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg, 1h30
Directed by Édouard Molinaro
Actors Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Friedrich von Thun, Amadeus August, Christine Citti, Cristina Marsillach
Roles Siegfried
Rating57% 2.860452.860452.860452.860452.86045
C'est une passion insatisfaite. Depuis de nombreuses années, le baron de Leisenbohg est épris de Claire, une célèbre soprano. Mais préférant le garder comme "meilleur ami", celle-ci repousse ses avances tout en lui laissant espérer "la prochaine fois"… C'est pourtant sur un nouvel homme qu'elle jette son dévolu à chacune de ses ruptures. Comme cette fois, avec le duc Richard, dont elle semble tomber vraiment amoureuse, jusqu'à projeter de l'épouser. Alors que Leisenbohg est au désespoir, un événement dramatique lui donne une chance unique de se retrouver sans concurrent. Le duc Richard meurt après un accident de cheval, mais avant de trépasser, il maudit son futur successeur, lui promettant l'enfer s'il touche à Claire…
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, 4h
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Fairuza Balk, David Ackroyd, Nicholas Clay, Burl Ives, James Read
Roles Count of Haugwitz-Reventlow
Rating68% 3.441363.441363.441363.441363.44136
The film begins in 1917 with the opening of the 1000th Woolworth's store, known as the Woolworth Tower. Barbara is seen with her family as her grandfather, Frank Woolworth, delivers a speech. After the commemoration, Frank expresses his disappointment to his daughter Edna that her husband Franklin was not present to celebrate the opening of the new store. Edna acknowledges that her husband is a philanderer, drunk, and gambler but replies that he still happens to be Barbara's father. Later that night in their apartment at the Plaza hotel, Edna leaves Barbara a note under her pillow, then walks back to her room and drinks poison. Barbara wakes up to find her mother dead.
The Assault, 2h24
Directed by Fons Rademakers
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Derek de Lint, Monique van de Ven, Ludwig Haas, John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Edda Barends, Amadeus August
Roles Hauptsturmfuhrer
Rating71% 3.5955053.5955053.5955053.5955053.595505
In January 1945, as the Second World War in Europe is reaching its end, much of the Netherlands remains under Nazi occupation. One night, a Nazi collaborator is shot dead on his bicycle. The family whose house he falls down in front of moves the body in front of the neighboring house, where the Steenwijk family lives. The Nazis, assuming that the Steenwijks killed the collaborator, execute the parents and older brother together with a large number of hostages. Burning the Steenwijk's house to the ground, they imprison the younger brother, Anton. The other person in his unlit cell is an older woman. Anton can see only her mouth. She spends the next few minutes comforting him until he is removed from the cell.
The Outsider, 1h40
Directed by Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Pierre Vernier, Tchéky Karyo, Maurice Barrier, Claude Brosset
Roles Le bagarreur du club « Le Carré d'as »
Rating64% 3.211433.211433.211433.211433.21143
Policeman Philippe Jordan works in Marseille. He intercepts the delivery of a shipload of heroin by jumping out of a helicopter onto a speedboat and throws all drugs into the sea. Drug lord Mecacci is desperate to get rid of Jordan and arranges an incident which leads to Jordan's disciplinary transfer. Jordan continues to fight against the drug cartel after all. He finds a valuable witness named "Freddy, the chemist" but Mecacci has Freddy killed before he can testify. When Mecacci's henchmen also murder Jordan's old friend Francis Pierron, Jordan retaliates immediately. Now Mecacci tries to lure him into a deadly trap. After Jordan has outsmarted Mecacci's killers he confronts their boss. The time for the final showdown has come.
The Wild Goose Chase, 1h50
Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Dolnitz, Amadeus August, Luis Rego
Roles Gunther
Rating61% 3.0959253.0959253.0959253.0959253.095925
Young and dynamic, founded with power from the "20th Century Bank", Pierre Vidal regularly spies with his binoculars his partner Janet, who works in a hairdressing salon. Fed up of being constantly watched, she takes advantage to excite his jealousy. His boss having taken a few days of vacation, Pierre is in charge to replace him. More nervous than ever of this enormous responsibility, he will soon have to take to the coffer halls a certain Monsieur de Rovère, who came to bring the transfer of shares act of the Alcazar, the famous Parisian cabaret. But the famous briefcase containing the documents is stolen on their sight.